I ventured out with a friend to Tompkins Square Park this morning to have a look at the Red-tailed Hawk nest I mentioned yesterday.
It was looking mighty fine:
Month: February 2014
Tompkins Square Park Red-tailed Hawk nest
Intrepid Tompkins Square Park Hawk follower/photographer Goggla recently shared the news that a pair of adult Red-tailed Hawks are building a nest on an air conditioner at the apartment building Christadora House (which overlooks the eastern border of the park). See that specific Goggla post here.
February 4th was the last time I was at TSP where I saw one of the adults having a chimney heat sun bath atop Christadora House.
I had seen the adults at Christadora when I visited in early Decemberas well so it seems they have had their eyes on that building (the tallest in the area) for a while now.
One of the pair looks a lot like an adult I saw in TSP in December of 2011 so perhaps this bird has been living there all this time? 🙂
A couple of juveniles still hang out and hunt in the park regularly. It will be interesting to see if the adults drive them out so that their offspring can inherit the park during their hunting/training phase before they too are forced to move on and find their own territory.
Bobby and Rosie ‘twig’, ‘nest’, then head to Union Square Park – February 20th, 2014
A fellow Hawk-watcher who was in Washington Square Park before I arrived had sent me news of Bobby and Rosie’s general whereabouts so finding them was not too difficult thankfully.
I first spotted Bobby on one of the Hawks’ regular perches on West 3rd Street and LaGuardia Place. They were a block south of the park. The Bobst Library (the location of their nest) is at the corner of 4th Street and LaGuardia Place.
Bobby was fussing with some food on the railing:
